LOCAL Three men have been shot and killed in Mbekweni in Paarl. Police spokesperson, Novela Potelwa, says Organised Crime detectives were called to the scene on Saturday. where they found the bodies of the deceased with multiple gunshot wounds in a car and a shack on the same property. The victims are aged 30, 33 and 40. Potelwa says the motive for the shooting is unknown at this stage and […]
LOCAL The trial of Fees Must Fall activist Bonginkosi Khanyile on charges relating to the unrest in July last year, is due to start in the Durban Regional Court on Monday. Khanyile is one of 19 alleged instigators of violence during the unrest, who were arrested last year. He is facing charges of incitement to violence and contravening COVID-19 regulations that prohibited meetings at the time. During Khanyile’s bail application the state […]
LOCAL The Hawks in Limpopo say 11 suspected illegal chrome miners who were arrested at Ga-Manyaka village outside Burgersfort are expected to appear at the Mecklenburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Hawks spokesperson Matimba Maluleke says they confiscated eleven generators, seven jackhammers, and wheelbarrows, among other things. Maluleke says the arrested illegal miners, or so-called zama-zamas, aged between 19 and 37, are suspected to be foreign nationals. Meanwhile, the Hawks have […]
LOCAL The man accused of setting fire to parliament is set to appear in the Cape Town high court on Friday. National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Eric Ntabazalila said Zandile Christmas Mafe would appear in the Cape Town high court for a pre-trial conference. Mafe, 49, faces housebreaking with intent to commit terrorism and arson, terrorism, arson and theft charges. He has been in custody since January 2 after a […]
LOCAL Families that lost their children in the Enyobeni tavern tragedy in East London in the Eastern Cape, are demanding the provincial government’s immediate release of the toxicology results. This after Premier Oscar Mabuyane announced that the laboratory results were back in the province from Cape Town but that his office had not yet received them. The families have lambasted government for not updating them about developments in the incident. Twenty-one young people […]
LOCAL In a large-scale operation spanning six provinces, the Hawks have arrested 20 alleged instigators of public violence during the unrest in July last year. The Hawks says in a statement that the suspects were arrested in parts of KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, North West, Free State, Western Cape, and the Northern Cape. The multi-disciplinary team who worked on the investigation included the digital forensic investigation team. Members of the National Intervention Unit, […]
LOCAL Pakistani and Bangladeshi travellers will now require a transit visa to travel to South Africa. R2.4 billion has been set aside to digitise 350 million civic documents dating back to 1895. These are among recent developments Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi briefed the media about in Pretoria on Thursday. The new measures are meant to address security breaches that have compromised the integrity of South African Passports. Among them […]
INTERNATIONAL The United Arab Emirates has overturned a three-year prison sentence for US citizen and civil rights attorney Asim Ghafoor, who had represented slain Middle East Eye columnist Jamal Khashoggi, one of his lawyers said. Virginia-based Ghafoor had been convicted in absentia in the UAE on murky charges that included money laundering and tax evasion. A court in the UAE lifted the three-year prison term and ordered Ghafoor to pay a $1.36m fine and […]
INTERNATIONAL Ferocious violence between UAE-backed fighters and militias allied to Islah, an Islamist alliance backed by Saudi Arabia, has rocked Yemen's southern province of Shabwah - posing a serious challenge to the authority of the country's new Presidential Leadership Council. Yemen has enjoyed a rare period of calm in the past four months, as a truce between forces loyal to the internationally recognised government and those of the Houthi movement has largely held. But […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
